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What are /lit/ thoughts on Hip Hop lyricism 2.0? 2017-02-09 07:20:40 Post No.9083556
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What are /lit/ thoughts on Hip Hop lyricism 2.0?
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>Thoughts on Hip Hop in general?
>Does /lit/ have some personal favorite rappers?
>How seriously does /lit/ take Hip Hop? Do you think it has (or already reached) it's fullest potential? Or will it never be taken seriously as literature?
I know /lit/ is retarded when it comes to music. But i'm interested in what you guys think about this?
Here are some songs from pic related if you want to judge for yourself.
Nas - Illmatic
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjj4hk0pV4
https://genius.com/Nas-ny-state-of-mind-lyrics
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYkDwzi-FI
https://genius.com/Nas-represent-lyrics
GZA - Liquid Sword
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwM1keL3yOQ
https://genius.com/Gza-4th-chamber-lyrics
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA49DaVmJWQ
https://genius.com/Gza-liquid-swords-lyrics
Death Grips - The Money Store
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn3vMyopjXI
https://genius.com/Death-grips-the-fever-aye-aye-lyrics
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_V_2BFWahc
https://genius.com/Death-grips-ive-seen-footage-lyrics
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUocSVSHYl4
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-the-blacker-the-berry-lyrics
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3rDc7sL0Co
https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-alright-lyrics
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I used to listen to a lot of hip-hop but my interest died out about 3 years ago.
Nowadays I just can't listen to it anymore. Like most people, my taste in music have changed, I guess.
Outkast, especially Big Boi is the only hip-hop I can stand now. They got a kind of "playfulness" that few have in their raps even when they are serious, without losing out musically.
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You're an embarrassment on all levels.
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I don't know. I think a medium should play to it's strength, and with rap the actual narrative contents of the song aren't it strong suit - and never will be as far as I'm concerned .
I'm far more interested in flow, punchlines, rhymes, beats and so on. I don't care if it's about ooga booga muh dick or nonsensical meme shit like yung lean, as long as the musical component is tight.
>he cannot read in Russian
Explain yourself, /lit/.
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Russian is a way too difficult language for me to bother learning simply to read books.
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>>9083463
>9083463
>Being a dirty commie
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>имплaйн
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How can I get more well read?
What's the fastest way?
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>>9082870
Have you tried reading?
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>>9082877
Yeah but I don't really like it. Any other suggestions?
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Reading. Books, especially
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Is it just me, or is almost every book nowadays a "New York Times Best Seller"?
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The best seller is just the one that sold the most in a given week, its not a yearly award or anything just which shit book sold the most
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The (((Jew York Times)))
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Name a bigger pseud.
>protip: you can't
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You.
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>>9079679
this tbqhf*m
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>>9079674
La féroce ignorance de Yahvé
Is Plato the biggest hack?
I'm an intellectual and well-versed in the history of Western Thought and Idea, and it feels like Whitehead's observation "all of western philosophy is a footnote to Plato" would be more accurately formulated as "all of western philosophy is a continuous BTFOing of Plato."
Plato is like the pseud who comes on /lit/ to samefag his own arguments and false flag his "opponents." By fortuitous happenstance Plato's writings survived in greater volume and quantity than other more insightful and coherent thinkers.
Now, Plato is essentially something for people who aren't intellectuals to read on the subway, and even Black folk have started to realize this. When are we going to collectively stop focusing our philosophical efforts on BTFOing the non-entity that is Plato and instead start spending our time and effort on more worthwhile endeavours?
Pic related.
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>I read the humor thread now it's time to shitpost
kill
urself
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>>9079406
as expected no counterargument
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>>9079393
You know that book I of the Republic has been written much earlier than the rest, right ? you shouldn't have expected anything from book I.
Is she right? Do booktubers deserve to be published?
What do you think of booktubers becoming authors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkqhNQWHmc
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>>9073048
It makes sense because they have an audience?
Can any of them actually write though?
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>>9073048
she looks like a female markiplier.
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>>9073048
She's just a monegrubbing kike.
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>Reads Nietzsche once.
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I'd rather have Bannon running the show than Trump teebeeaich.
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>>9072561
Bannon IS running the show. Why do you think he got put on the National Security Council? He's the power behind the throne. Trump is quickly becoming Bannon's puppet, Bannon nearly has him mastered.
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>>9072561
Bannon seems like a pretty sober paleocon. The most offensive thing about him to me is his Reaganite shit, but it doesn't seem like it implies a neocon cult connection, since he hates those guys too.
Can't honestly think of people I'd rather have running the country than a Bannon at this point. His CRAZED FASCIST GOALS are probably shit like "mild nationalism and fix the budget lol, also stop importing 50,000,000,000 mexicans per second per second"
/lit/ humour thread
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I saw this asked a few weeks ago and now I need an answer myself.
Does anyone know where in the U.K. I can find a copy of Blood Meridian with a different cover from this god awful one?
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>>9088862
That's the best cover imo desu. But you can get the hardcover or the vintage one from amazon senpai
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-Library/dp/0679641041/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1486776371&sr=1-1
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>>9088862
I have this edition, it's really good.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Blood-Meridian/9781447289456
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>>9088862
I'll sell you mine for 70 quid
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I've decided that I'm going to write a novel. I'm thinking thriller, but I'm open to suggestions.
Give me some ideas; I don't care how insane they sound, I might try doing something "new," even if it doesn't make me a single dime.
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>>9088536
look up michael tolkin's movies. I like his ideas
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>>9088548
His movies seem pretty original and intriguing, I agree.
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This is the start of chapter 1:
Chapter 1
I don‘t want to sound pretentious; I want to create something new, but I have severe doubts whether that‘s even possible at this point. You have these grandiose thoughts of wanting to contribute something great to humanity, to contribute a piece of your supposed, the ever elusive intellect that you want to believe you possess, but you‘re constantly bombarded by doubts, and it makes you hate yourself and feel weak and pathetic and useless.
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/lit/, despite all the memeing and deliberate contrarianism that goes on here, this is still a very articulate and thoughtful board when it wants to be, and I sincerely value that side of it.
So can I ask you all avideo game relatedquestion?What did you think of UNDERTALE from a literary perspective, and as a story?I swear to you i'm not baiting or anything, I'm really interested in what people have to say, as I felt the story and its presentation came off fairly book-like. But though I think this place is much more level-headed than /v/, I know the game can be divisive.
More broadly, and to ensure I meet the posting requirements for this board, what do you guys think of the current state and future of interactive literary media, from goosebumps choose your own adventure stories, to whatever comes next.
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Haven't played Undertale but video games as a medium have unique strengths that they should focus on instead of trying to be more like good books or (more commonly) more like movies.
The main advantage being that they can present a world and let the player discover it's depths at their own pace. Top tier examples of this include Dark Souls, Super Metroid, Fez, Shadow of the Colossus and the old Western RPGs like Baldurs Gate and Fallout.
If only game makers would focus on that and stop wanking themselves over being the next Hollywood and cranking out second rate movies like Last of Us.
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>>9088403
>unique strengths that they should focus on
Fucking medium specificity. This ain't the 50s grandpa.
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>>9088403
I agree, and based on what you said I think you'd like it.
Just don't spoil yourself before hand.
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Reminder that anyone can be a critic, and that as much as you may look down on someone like David Foster Wallace, you couldn't write at a fraction of his skill, never mind even getting close to being published.
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>>9088213
True. Thanks for the reminder, OP.
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My father talks like a giant psychopathic little girl who wants everyone to be his friend. So just letting you know you may have also have been conditioned
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>>9088297
what did he mean by this?
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Anyone read anything else by the niqqa who wrote Stoner?
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I don't read books from people with such boring names as "John Williams"
Only authors with unpronounceable names make it into this home.
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I read The Broken Landscape, pretty good teebeeaich
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Nigga looks like Walter White
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Where should I start with Husserl ?
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Greeks.
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Don't.
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>>9088118
Why not ?